The cousin of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 pilot has admitted he made a 'mysterious' phone call to his relative before the doomed flight vanished.
Former Malaysia Airlines engineer Zulhaimi Bin Wahidin said he called Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and spent 45 minutes on the phone with the pilot.
He said he last called his first cousin on February 2, 2014, weeks out from the mysterious disappearance of the Boeing 777 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The revelation comes after Mr Zulhami broke his silence for the first time to dismiss a series of conspiracy theories that claimed the plane was hijacked, The Australian reported.
Former Malaysia Airlines engineer Zulhaimi Bin Wahidin (pictured) said he called Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and spent 45-minutes on the phone with the pilot
In particular, Mr Zulhaimi brushed aside rumours he had given Zaharie (pictured) technical details that subsequently allowed him to hijack the plane and ultimately destroy the lives of 238 passengers and crew members on March 8, 2014
In particular, Mr Zulhaimi brushed aside rumours he had given Zaharie technical details that subsequently allowed him to hijack the plane and ultimately destroy the lives of 238 passengers and crew members on March 8, 2014.
Conspiracy theories of Mr Zulhaimi's role in the disappearance of the plane first swirled after an investigative report from May the same year was leaked online.
The report not only revealed police were suspicious of the phone call between the pair, but that Mr Zulhaimi had tried to call Zaharie on his mobile three times after the plane was announced as missing.
Members of an independent group of experts spoke to the media late last year and demanded Malaysia confirm 'the role and technical area of expertise' of the aircraft engineer.
They wanted to know what the conversation in the phone call was about and who had tried to call the pilot Captain Zaharie Shah three times on the fateful morning.
Mr Zulhaimi admitted he tried to call the pilot three times between 10.27am and 11.12am on the day the flight disappeared.
He said the calls were made out of pure disbelief his cousin's flight was missing.
On that tragic day, air traffic control screens lost sight of the MH370 about 40 minutes into its flight.
The sudden disappearance came about when the plane's secondary radar transponder was turned off.
Moments afterwards, Zaharie made one last harrowing radio transmission: 'Good night, Malaysian Three-Seven-Zero'.
Military primary radar and automatic satellite 'handshakes' later tracked the course of the MH370.
The ensuing investigation showed the plane flew back over Malaysia and continued up the Straits of Malacca before it turned back and followed a long course south to the southern Indian Ocean.
To this day, the plane remains lost despite two big undersea hunts to salvage
